Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,246 5,884 7,258
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.00% 23.34% 19.43%
As % of the General category 34.59% 36.29% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,942 5,060
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.92% -1.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £849
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 104 242
10th Percentile £15.77 £17.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.82 £23.89 £15.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.06 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +39.48% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.75 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.13 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +28.57% -7.83%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,839 16,213 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.93% 64.32% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,480 10,436 13,677
10th Percentile £313 £281 £290
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -2.83% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,698 785 1,806
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -16.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £54.89
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.45 £31.89
% change year-on-year +16.58% -13.91% +6.28%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,947 £575 -4.17% 2,098
North of England +1 1,275 £500 +7.53% 631
South East -1 693 £500 -4.76% 910
North West +4 675 £469 +4.22% 329
Midlands 0 651 £500 +11.11% 393
Yorkshire 0 555 £525 +9.95% 227
West Midlands +1 479 £504 +3.44% 234
South West -3 378 £525 - 319
East of England +3 194 £513 -10.87% 218
East Midlands 0 165 £475 +13.77% 158
North East -15 46 £500 +13.96% 84
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 291 (3.53%) Confluence
2 206 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 84 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 64 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (0.58%) Apache
6 45 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 26 (0.32%) CMS
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) IIS
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.12%) Appian
15 6 (0.073%) Hyperledger
15 6 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.061%) WebLogic
16 5 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 454 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 156 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 99 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.061%) Sketch
9 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.049%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.049%) Trello
10 3 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.036%) Notion
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 302 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 95 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 80 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 70 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
7 42 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
8 41 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
9 40 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
10 38 (0.46%) Aladdin
11 34 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
12 33 (0.40%) SAP FI
13 27 (0.33%) SAP CO
14 25 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
15 24 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 24 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
16 23 (0.28%) SAP ERP
17 21 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
17 21 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,328 (16.10%) Azure
2 956 (11.59%) AWS
3 563 (6.83%) Power Platform
4 423 (5.13%) GCP
5 284 (3.44%) SaaS
6 283 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 256 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 214 (2.60%) GitHub
9 185 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
10 172 (2.09%) Snowflake
11 162 (1.96%) Entra ID
12 136 (1.65%) Serverless
13 110 (1.33%) Amazon S3
14 99 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 99 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 92 (1.12%) OCI
16 89 (1.08%) dbt
17 84 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
18 80 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
19 78 (0.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 150 (1.82%) Firewall
2 131 (1.59%) Network Security
3 69 (0.84%) DNS
3 69 (0.84%) VPN
4 57 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 55 (0.67%) WAN
6 40 (0.49%) BGP
7 32 (0.39%) HTTP
7 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 31 (0.38%) SSL
9 29 (0.35%) DHCP
10 28 (0.34%) OSPF
11 26 (0.32%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 21 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (0.25%) Internet
13 21 (0.25%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.23%) VSAN
15 17 (0.21%) VLAN
16 16 (0.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (5.89%) Power BI
2 239 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 223 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 164 (1.99%) Metadata
4 164 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 146 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 125 (1.52%) Tableau
7 122 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 86 (1.04%) NoSQL
9 71 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
10 68 (0.82%) Big Data
11 63 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 60 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 49 (0.59%) MongoDB
14 47 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
15 46 (0.56%) Power Query
15 46 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 45 (0.55%) Delta Lake
17 40 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
18 39 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 602 (7.30%) JIRA
2 209 (2.53%) Git
3 155 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 91 (1.10%) GitLab
5 55 (0.67%) JUnit
6 45 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 37 (0.45%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (0.33%) Postman
10 25 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.28%) MLflow
11 23 (0.28%) REST Assured
11 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.27%) ERwin
13 19 (0.23%) Maven
14 17 (0.21%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.18%) Hudson
15 15 (0.18%) Zephyr
16 14 (0.17%) Gradle
General
1 2,413 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 1,554 (18.85%) Banking
3 1,096 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 459 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 374 (4.54%) Legal
6 334 (4.05%) Financial Institution
7 322 (3.90%) Investment Banking
8 311 (3.77%) Front Office
9 280 (3.40%) Retail
10 272 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
11 204 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
12 192 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
13 162 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 147 (1.78%) Local Government
15 141 (1.71%) Manufacturing
16 135 (1.64%) General Ledger
17 129 (1.56%) Billing
18 125 (1.52%) Law
19 120 (1.46%) Marketing
20 118 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,200 (14.55%) Analyst
2 922 (11.18%) Senior
3 877 (10.64%) Lead
4 833 (10.10%) Developer
5 788 (9.56%) Architect
6 626 (7.59%) Project Manager
7 600 (7.28%) Business Analyst
8 536 (6.50%) Consultant
9 310 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
10 289 (3.50%) Data Engineer
11 209 (2.53%) Senior Manager
12 193 (2.34%) Financial Analyst
13 174 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 173 (2.10%) Accountant
15 167 (2.03%) Finance Manager
15 167 (2.03%) Java Developer
16 163 (1.98%) Software Engineer
17 159 (1.93%) Programme Manager
18 157 (1.90%) IT Manager
19 152 (1.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (3.10%) REST
2 252 (3.06%) .NET
3 244 (2.96%) React
4 231 (2.80%) Kafka
5 185 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 174 (2.11%) Middleware
7 151 (1.83%) Spring
8 145 (1.76%) Spring Boot
9 117 (1.42%) RESTful
10 110 (1.33%) Redux
11 104 (1.26%) Node.js
12 103 (1.25%) PySpark
13 84 (1.02%) AngularJS
14 81 (0.98%) JSON
15 75 (0.91%) OAuth
16 72 (0.87%) XML
17 60 (0.73%) CSS
18 57 (0.69%) Pandas
19 56 (0.68%) GraphQL
20 55 (0.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 387 (4.69%) Onboarding
2 356 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 350 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 225 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 203 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 184 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 160 (1.94%) Fixed Income
8 159 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 153 (1.86%) Derivative
10 147 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 140 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 139 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
13 121 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 119 (1.44%) Equities
15 107 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 104 (1.26%) AI Agents
17 99 (1.20%) Public Cloud
18 97 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
19 90 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
20 85 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 288 (3.49%) Windows
2 256 (3.10%) Linux
3 135 (1.64%) Unix
4 63 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.45%) Solaris
6 35 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 34 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 31 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.34%) Android
9 28 (0.34%) zOS
10 20 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.085%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.073%) VMS
14 5 (0.061%) HPUX
14 5 (0.061%) SUSE
14 5 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.049%) MVS
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,780 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,704 (20.66%) Agile
3 1,165 (14.13%) Migration
4 1,077 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
5 967 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 898 (10.89%) DevOps
7 896 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 880 (10.67%) AI
9 869 (10.54%) CI/CD
10 825 (10.00%) Analytics
11 816 (9.90%) ERP
12 758 (9.19%) Decision-Making
13 716 (8.68%) Project Management
14 695 (8.43%) Validation
15 693 (8.40%) Roadmaps
16 689 (8.36%) Data Modelling
17 631 (7.65%) User Acceptance Testing
18 614 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
19 606 (7.35%) Change Management
20 535 (6.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (13.93%) SQL
2 1,021 (12.38%) Python
3 561 (6.80%) Java
4 359 (4.35%) C#
5 242 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 238 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 198 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 80 (0.97%) Bash
9 76 (0.92%) C++
10 73 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 69 (0.84%) Go
12 68 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 55 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 54 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 45 (0.55%) Scala
16 44 (0.53%) VBA
17 33 (0.40%) Bicep
18 30 (0.36%) Apex Code
18 30 (0.36%) Rust
19 28 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 673 (8.16%) Degree
2 640 (7.76%) Security Cleared
3 456 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 210 (2.55%) PMP
5 209 (2.53%) ACCA
6 186 (2.26%) CIMA
7 180 (2.18%) PMI Certification
8 160 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 143 (1.73%) CISSP
10 130 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 91 (1.10%) DV Cleared
12 81 (0.98%) CISM
13 79 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 78 (0.95%) Azure Certification
15 64 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.56%) AWS Certification
16 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 38 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 38 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 30 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 356 (4.32%) QA
3 309 (3.75%) PMO
4 287 (3.48%) GDPR
5 157 (1.90%) NIST
6 128 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 112 (1.36%) IFRS
8 100 (1.21%) SLA
9 89 (1.08%) GRC
10 83 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 80 (0.97%) Accessibility
12 62 (0.75%) GAAP
13 61 (0.74%) PCI DSS
14 54 (0.65%) ISO 20022
15 37 (0.45%) NCSC
16 35 (0.42%) SEPA
16 35 (0.42%) Solvency II
17 32 (0.39%) PSD2
18 29 (0.35%) IFRS 17
19 28 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 258 (3.13%) Docker
2 174 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.34%) vSphere
5 20 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.15%) RACF
9 11 (0.13%) NFS
10 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.073%) GPFS
11 6 (0.073%) KVM
12 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.036%) GridGain
14 3 (0.036%) SRDF
15 2 (0.024%) ACF2
15 2 (0.024%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.024%) IAG
Systems Management
1 368 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 251 (3.04%) Terraform
3 137 (1.66%) Ansible
4 77 (0.93%) Grafana
5 67 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.61%) SCCM
8 42 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.30%) Control-M
10 18 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.22%) vRealize
11 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.17%) Nessus
13 12 (0.15%) AirWatch
13 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.13%) Argo
14 11 (0.13%) CASB
14 11 (0.13%) Puppet
15 10 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1,064 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 676 (8.20%) Oracle
3 652 (7.91%) SAP
4 300 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 259 (3.14%) Databricks
6 204 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 184 (2.23%) Google
8 126 (1.53%) Workday
9 112 (1.36%) VMware
10 107 (1.30%) Splunk
11 98 (1.19%) IBM
12 96 (1.16%) Cisco
13 91 (1.10%) CyberArk
14 61 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 60 (0.73%) Citrix
16 55 (0.67%) Bloomberg
16 55 (0.67%) Sage
17 49 (0.59%) Informatica
18 48 (0.58%) Ariba
18 48 (0.58%) Murex